Thanks to both of you. That does make more sense, however, I still have one question. In our firewall today, we have some rules that look like this, "access-list 81 extended permit ip...", and others that look like this, "access-list 101 extended permit ip...".
Is 81 just the name of the ACL, even though it's an extended list? By the way, this is in an ASA firewall running 7.1(2).
And does it make any difference in naming an ACL by number or name? Such as "access-list 70 permit..." versus "access-list dmz_acl permit..."
Thanks for helping a newbie figure this stuff out, TT